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cither heeaiisc tlio coiiditioiis ol' Iho bultoui (wliere ii is overgrown wiili zosteni) 

 <lo not iit tlic [)laice, or Ironi otlicr reasons; tlicy aro i'are l'or inntanfc in tlic 

 liicl;c(l irntcrs at Nykøbing, at Lemvig, and in Skibsted -Fjord. In Kihii, 

 Iljcri.-Sor, and SmKhr-Lem- Vi(j they are almost (]uite missing. 



AMicn I arrived at Nykøbing, towards tiie end ol April, I iinniediately 

 examined tbe tishermen's stores of plaice. 'Phere were amoug them tivo larjic 

 sj)iTi)iieiis of ]:>^l., inchcs ivHh ripc .^patnt. The spawning-season, ordinarily, 

 must be i^upposed to be over at tliis time of tlie year. In the following days. 

 till tbe 2. ol' May, all those sizes f»f plaice ^vere gathered together which my men 

 coLild catcb in the nearest waters betwecn Fnur and C41yngør. For this pur- 

 pose they used both seines (some witli large, others with small meslies) and 

 weels, nav even prawu-catchers, and tliey lislied on deep as well as on (|uitL' 

 sliallou water. They got 63 plaice between 6',., and 12 indies, and 2 .smaller 

 ones of 4-' ,, and 5 iuches (see Table I, column 13). From the knowledge 1 have 

 ol' the fishing-power of my seines I must therefore concUide that there wcrc 

 not many plaice where we had tished, and that scarcely auy small ones (un- 

 der G\.^ iuches) were liviug there. I cailed the attention of the fishermen tu 

 this latter faet, but thougli they promised, in the course of the summer to get 

 me some (jnite small plaice (»as small as a nail«), they ouly brought me a 

 few of 3' o — 5 iuches in length-'). I dåre say the tishermen have mis- 

 taken small flounders for plaice. The fnj of 1804, therefore. must he said to 

 Ix' tilniost ((nile tnissiiiii in thcse waters, i. e. north of Glyngør in Sallingsund, 

 und the fri/ uf tliis i/ear (1895) iras nol fon ml iit oli. 



No eggs of plaice were l'ound al this time Hoating in the waler; alter 

 the nbove ineutioned lind of ripe |)laice we might have expected still to see 

 at least a few specimens, though the spawning-season at otlier places gener- 

 ally is nuu'Ii earlier in the year and only exceptioually lasts till the montli ol 

 Jhiy. A luniiber of otlier jielagic eggs were found, however, oi Ww Jloniidir 

 as well as of tlie sprol and roeldimj. Ripe tiounders were found in great num- 

 bers at this time, but I could not catch auy rii)c sprats and rockliugs, thougli 

 they certainly live there: \ was only prevented from catehing them by prac- 

 tical difticulties and want of knowledge of tlieir dwclling-places. 



Tlio wiiiiiUcHt wliicli liiive bt'uii uli.served wero i'au;ilil l'\ my.scir »ii tljc '2'2. May in 

 a scine at Sæbygaard Hage inearly (jff Nykøhinjr in Sallingsund); I ronmi 7 lictweiMi 

 :." , lind ;! iiulips in l(-'iii.'tli. 



